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Havas Finds Growth Where Others Cannot
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Havas Finds Growth Where Others Cannot

The French holding company Havas, which has spent much of the last decade as the smallest of the major advertising conglomerates, appears to have found something in North America that its larger rivals have misplaced: momentum.

TikTok Shop Revives the Oldest Game in Direct Marketing
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TikTok Shop Revives the Oldest Game in Direct Marketing

The phrase "shots on goal" has been part of advertising vocabulary for about as long as there have been goals to shoot at, which is to say since the first person with something to sell realized that some customers buy and most do not.

The Call Up Arrives for Women Seeking Sports Business Careers
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The Call Up Arrives for Women Seeking Sports Business Careers

The notion that sports is a relationship business has been repeated so often it has become one of those truths that is both obvious and useless — obvious because everyone knows it, useless because knowing it does not actually help you get into the room where the relationships are being formed.

Google Lets Drug Makers Into the AI Waiting Room
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Google Lets Drug Makers Into the AI Waiting Room

For years, the pharmaceutical industry and the technology industry have circled each other like two guests at a party who suspect they went to the same college but cannot quite place the year.

Stagwell Inks Its Largest Deal, With an AI Platform as the Prize
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Stagwell Inks Its Largest Deal, With an AI Platform as the Prize

The holding company that Mark Penn built from the merger of MDC Partners and his digital group has spent the past few years trying to distinguish itself from its larger rivals by emphasizing technology partnerships rather than sheer scale.